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You were a dlc democrat, and the dlc was a group of moderate democrats, bill clinton being probably the most successful one, who got together after the 60s when the democratic party was pulled many felt way to the 4re left and could not win national elections. should there be a formation of that sort of group or do you disagree that republicans are on -- >> i think its just going to find the middle ground. you just had a couple people on that are looking for that middle ground, and theyre found ...

This is not good -- >> do you agree that republicans are taking a lot? >> well, i think both are. i think democrats who think this is a parlor game, who think this is fun, democrats think well send government workers out there to close off the roadside viewing of mt. rushmore because that is funny. i dont think it is funny. i think democrats and republicans will catch blame. i dont want to be here. i dont see this as winning or losing. this is a lose-lose situation. we need to open up gouvernmen...

The immigration debates. he, you foe, obviously suffered with the tea party grass roots movement. i think that, you know, its been interesting to see how he has clearly been positioning himself for 2016, coming out strong, sort of trying to rebuild his image as a true conservative when all the ted cruz standoff and the filibuster was happening on obama care. i think that was very interesting to see for 2016. >> wasnt marco rubio fascinating to this long run judgment after that, marco rubio being...

We should not be making people suffer through the shutdown. >> ralph, do you agree there are enough votes to pass a so-called clean c.r.? >> there may or may not be. but even if there are, youd be asking john boehner to circumvent his own conference and put his own speakership at risk. >> for the country, who cares about -- shouldnt he not care about his own speakership? if it gets the government going? >> im going to stipulate that the president is an intelligent man. can we stipulate that? so ...

To kids on college campuses. they are the ones paying for washington, d.c.s inability to deal with the problems. >> representative, what do you think about, is it just a shutdown and the debt ceiling? is that the crisis that can be solved or the gop can get what they want to defund or delay obama care? >> i think the shutdown, right now, the immediate cr and funding of the government is about the long term problems. we want the president to negotiate with us on these long term problems. its not ...

>> oh, shameful. im sorry, shameful. its shameful but this has been brewing for a long time. you know, dale just talked about it how there is a c.r. after c.r. after c.r. continuing resolution. washington is clearly broken. youve got a budget process where the house and senate are supposed to pass budgets. they are supposed to come together and an appropriation committee are supposed to pass bills to fund the government. that hasnt happened in years. i mean, i think its been six years, five year...

House to pass real immigration reform in the next few months, a year, whatever it is. >> good question. so last saturday, over 160 events across the nation. you saw what happened on the mall this tuesday. look, i remember when i was at the white house stopping deportations alone. i invited other members. they didnt want to come. they didnt think it was an issue that they want. now we had eight. we were there with john lewis. look, were not going away. the movement is stronger, more determined th...

Reid held them together and deliver and now boehner has flaked. the only way out of this is for boehner to unflake. capitulate. we should not be making people suffer through the shutdown. >> ralph, do you agree there are enough votes to pass a so-called clean c.r.? >> there may or may not be. but even if there are, youd be asking john boehner to circumvent his own conference and put his own speakership at risk. >> for the country, who cares about -- shouldnt he not care about his own speakership...

To any of the democratic proposals. they would literally lose their elections and be politically defunct. >> if this clean c.r., so to speak, if this thing were brought up to a vote by house speaker john boehner, would it, in fact, pass fairly easily? >> no. i dont think thats true. a lot of the quotes that you will see, unofficial counts from republicans come from before the shutdown began. maybe it doesnt make a ton of sense. but some of these guys from moderate districts were ready to cave th...

>> i would support that outcome. there are those of us in the house who are working on the medical device tax issue on part of a group, bipartisan in nature thats working on that. i certainly would support that proposal from the senate if na comes to us here in the house. >> let me back up for a minute, ask you, i have been asking this to a bunch of republicans, actually. why did we get the shutdown in the first place? if it end up being the two-year delays, it seems like an awfully small thing ...